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Help needed for suggestions for Protection for zucchini seedlings.

Hi Everyone,   I am providing a buffet style dinner in my little veggie patch for snails.    I have a dog so I don't put down snail pellets.   I have been crushing up egg shells and putting around the seedlings but somehow the snails are doing some incredible moves to wrangle their way around and between any gaps in the shells and continue feasting on my seedlings.   Apart from sitting outside each night with a torch to catch the buggers - does anyone have any other suggestions I can try.   (apart from just purchasing zucchinis at supermarket!).   

Hi @iserbrown
Your irises are lovely.  I also have a few irises flowering.  I only ever picked them once and the irises dripped colour (deep purple) and stained my tablecloth.  I just thought oh well they shouldn't be picked as flowers in a vase.  I wonder if I did something wrong.  Do you pick them and vase them regularly.

My favourite time of year. Lots of colour in the garden. A handful of Irises with a little piece of Golden Elm sitting proudly on the Woodheater. To think it was only 12 degrees yesterday and the woodheater keeping us warm and today was 22!

@jennyss
Haha your carrot's pose reminds me of when I sneeze and her thighs look like mine!!

There are good signs that we are in for a good "Wet". The poinciana trees are blooming in abundance and the boabs are in leaf and flower much earlier than usual. (Except not the boab in the photo, he is always much slower that the others on the block).  I hope so because then the block's "dry season" look will disappear under a carpet of lush green.

I didn't know whether to post this photo of a carrot grown by me here, or in Friday Funnies!
We have a small circular corrugated iron raised vegie bed and recently have grown  silver beet, radishes and carrots. 

@jennyss

Beautiful, I love how the succulents cascade over the logs. Petunias and geraniums won't grow in the Kimberley (I ignored the advice of the old timers and wasted money trying, they were right!).

Succulents do well, surprisingly. For a long while I resisted - they were not exotic enough. Then, on a day trip to Broome, that big green store, whose name begins with a 'B' and where "team members" all wear green aprons, had a wonderful display of succulents and I was hooked.

The result, a succulent bed established in a shady area of the front garden. Should look lush in a few years. That is, if I stop cutting bits off for propagating.

Spring has sprung! Geraniums and petunias and succulents are about what I can manage.

Beautiful!

Photo from my rainforest walks Photos